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Post Growth Institute @postgrowth.org · 3d

People around the world are hungry for economic systems change. Reclaim the Economy Week is a new moment for us to amplify and showcase the many ways we can redesign our economies.

Join info sessions on 6th October at 8am/2pm UTC and take action: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Donnie Maclurcan @donmacca.bsky.social · 20d

@scottsantens.com Given all money in a bank account somewhere is matched by debt elsewhere and, under your proposals, money is still accumulating, albeit more slowly (i.e., it's still capitalism), debt must keep accumulating too. My question then: in your system, where's the debt accumulating?

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Donnie Maclurcan @donmacca.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks for asking. I'm worried about debt because it's often missed in #UBI conversations and has real impacts on the ability of households (and businesses) to meet their needs.

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Donnie Maclurcan @donmacca.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks Scott - I hear you. However, if capital is accumulating (in the aggregate) in bank accounts of the wealthiest households/companies, then that means the 'corresponding' debt hast to be held elsewhere. I don't see how any policy, smart or otherwise, could change this phenomenon, mathematical.

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Post Growth Institute @postgrowth.org · 22d

otherWise: a cosmolocal learning community. otherWise hosts small, place-rooted gatherings and deep, slow virtual inquiry.

Explore offerings on a wide range of topics, from gardening and motherhood to grief work to care and creativity at the margins: otherwise.one

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Donnie Maclurcan @donmacca.bsky.social · 22d

Thx @scottsantens.com. Follow-up q: If, under any UBI scenario all the taxes you describe were enacted, can we agree that (given profit-maximization is still central) net accumulation of money in the bank accounts of the wealthiest households/corporations still occurs, albeit more slowly than now?

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Donnie Maclurcan @donmacca.bsky.social · 23d

Happy #freemoneyday! Every Sept. 15 people hand out money to strangers, asking them to keep half, and pass half on, to inspire a more generous world! Today my colleague and I handed out #money in Istanbul. To get involved, visit: freemoneyday.org @postgrowth.org #postgrowth #money #payitforward

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Post Growth Institute @postgrowth.org · 28d

[EN/ES] This year's International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples theme was "Indigenous Peoples and AI: Defending Rights, Shaping Futures."

Learn more about @SIRGECoalition's efforts to prioritize Indigenous solutions in the energy transition: www.sirgecoalition.org #postgrowthalliance

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Frank Kumli @frankkumli.bsky.social · Aug 17

Nurturing Innovation!

Real #innovation is not a race for the exceptional. It's a long, relational practice of nurturing the conditions from which life-affirming change can grow

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#impact

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Post Growth Institute @postgrowth.org · Aug 18

Philanthropic business-as-usual must be composted.

Trimita Chakma, Post Growth Fellow, and movement organizers show us how to shift from charity to reparation.

🌄 The guidebook introduces a “sunset gift-making” pilot that moved thousands of dollars and five principles: medium.com/postgrowth/m...

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Post Growth Institute @postgrowth.org · Aug 13

Innovating for systems change is critical. But perhaps even more critical are the ‘containers’ in which such innovation occurs. A report commissioned by @unearthodox.bsky.social and led by the @postgrowth.org offers a roadmap rooted in global lived experiences: unearthodox.org/2025/08/reth...

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Post Growth Institute @postgrowth.org · Jul 29

Join The Gaian Way for a free webinar on Aug 13 at 7 PM ET to explore the Cycles of Gaia curriculum—an interdisciplinary framework that brings ecological literacy to life. Integrate hands-on nature-based learning into your classroom—no matter where you teach.

Register now: cyclesofgaia.com/webinar

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Post Growth Institute @postgrowth.org · Jul 15

We can acquaint ourselves with collapse.

Sara El-Sayeh, #postgrowth Fellow, introduces micro-dreaming as a way to build bridges between the current world and the one we want to inhabit.

Explore this beautiful digital zine and article for inspiring reflections & actions: medium.com/postgrowth/a...

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Donnie Maclurcan @donmacca.bsky.social · Jun 19

What an opportunity!

Post Growth Institute @postgrowth.org · Jun 19

Tune into the Wellbeing Economy Policymakers Network session on 6/26 to learn:

🌱 what a Māori wellbeing economy looks like,
💡 how leadership and governance differ in a Māori economy,
🧰 practical ways to implement Māori governance principles.

zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Post Growth Institute @postgrowth.org · Jun 16

Join @postcarbon.org and frontline advocates to discuss the microplastic pollution crisis and learn what we – individually and collectively – can do about it.

Register for the free webinar on June 24 & receive the recording with a donation: www.resilience.org/stories/2025... @oceana.bsky.social

Troubled Waters: How Microplastics Are Impacting Our Oceans and Our Health

Microplastic pollution is poisoning nearly everything on the planet—from the deepest parts of the ocean to inside the cells of living beings. In "Troubled Waters: How Microplastics Are Impacting Our O...

www.resilience.org

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Post Growth Institute @postgrowth.org · Jun 4

There are opportunities to decolonize energy transitions and halt “green colonialism.”

Join @postcarbon.org on June 9 to unpack so-called “renewables,” the polycrisis, and pathways towards decolonial energy futures.

Register now to receive the recording: www.postcarbon.org/decolonising...

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Post Growth Institute @postgrowth.org · May 28

🚨 Shareable releases “Mutual Aid 101: Solidarity, Survival, and Resistance,” a free intro toolkit for mutual aid organizing—from starting a group to sustaining it for the long haul. Download the toolkit & visit their website for more: www.shareable.net/mutual-aid-toolkit @share-able.bsky.social

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Post Growth Institute @postgrowth.org · May 8

Galina Angarova, exposes the hidden cost of the green energy transition and calls for a change in mindset.

Watch the 14-minute #TedTalk and learn how SIRGE Coalition is working to secure the rights of Indigenous Peoples in the energy transition: www.ted.com/talks/galina...

The hidden cost of the green transition's mineral rush

What if the race to save the planet is harming the people who protect it? Indigenous advocate Galina Angarova exposes the hidden cost of the green energy transition, where the demand for minerals like...

www.ted.com

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Donnie Maclurcan @donmacca.bsky.social · Apr 28

I find #sociocracy, and consent-based decision-making, SO powerful, especially in these challenging times.

@sociocracyforall.bsky.social is, hands-down, the global leader on sociocratic methods, and now they've brought out even more great free resources!

Post Growth Institute @postgrowth.org · Apr 28

Find out how decision-making and governance can be restorative instead of extractive, clarifying instead of confusing, & connecting instead of polarizing with @sociocracyforall.bsky.social!

Learn the basics of #sociocracy through the 75-minute primer course: sociocracyforall.org/primer-sutra

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Post Growth Institute @postgrowth.org · Apr 15

🌎 Last chance to participate in the University Diploma in New Economies hosted by PINE (Plataforma de Introducción a Nuevas Economías)! Enroll in a unique program featuring 12 supported proposals.

✅ Only 10 spots remain! Discounts available.
👉 Registration closes Apr. 18: nuevaseconomias.org

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Donnie Maclurcan @donmacca.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welcome to the 2025 #postgrowth Fellows!

Post Growth Institute @postgrowth.org · Apr 10

The Post Growth Fellowship returns for 2025! We’re thrilled to introduce the fourth cohort of Post Growth Fellows: medium.com/postgrowth/i...

➡️ Subscribe to our monthly newsletter and follow us on Medium at Post Growth Perspectives for the latest learnings and insights: postgrowth.org/newsletter/

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Post Growth Institute @postgrowth.org · Apr 8

Culture Hack Labs launches the Rhizome Fellowship!
This 8-month journey for narrative practitioners, artists, journalists, & changemakers provides a supportive, experimental space to develop powerful narrative interventions through the Culture Hack Method. Apply now: www.culturehack.io/rhizome/

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Donnie Maclurcan @donmacca.bsky.social · Apr 8

4/4 The sooner there's wider acceptance of this reality (requiring a lot of ‘letting go’, esp. for those who've built careers on 'moral capitalism' existing/survived oppressive, communistic regimes), the sooner more generative explorations will be starting from the ‘same page’.

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Donnie Maclurcan @donmacca.bsky.social · Apr 8

3/4 Commentators keep getting suckered into analysis that's downstream of what’s core to our socio-economic problems: there is no #sustainable, equitable form of #capitalism (mathematically, physically, greenwashingly, techno-utopianistically, crypto-backedly, or otherwise).

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Donnie Maclurcan @donmacca.bsky.social · Apr 8

2/4 In a global, #capitalist system, capitalist accumulation will continue no matter the individual/collective approach to trade. The global #money supply (and #debt stocks), will continue to grow, *irrespective* of #recession or global #economicgrowth.

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